Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying Episode 21 - 30 of 63 in total of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “comedy”.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
April 8th, 2024 | 2 hrs 9 mins
absurd, absurdism, bbc, britcom, british, comedy, dead parrot, eric idle, flying circus, geek, graham chapman, john cleese, logic, michael palin, monty python, nerd, python, saturday night live, sketch, sketch comedy, skit, snl, spam, taskmaster, terry gilliam, terry jones
And now for something completely different. Monty Python's Flying Circus redefined comedy from the subatomic level up with sketches that were quotable, absurd, and of course, funnier than a dead parrot full of spam. Guest comedians Rich Baker and Ned Record (of the Lost & Confounded podcast) join us to roundtable our top 10 Python sketches. Burma!
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The Big Lebowski
April 1st, 2024 | 2 hrs 22 mins
bowling, coen brothers, comedy, detective, dude, entertainment, film, film noir, jeff bridges, john goodman, julianne moore, los angeles, movies, mystery, noir, steve buscemi, the dude
The Dude abides, and his stupefying tale from the Coen Brothers continues to make people laugh to beat the bend... parts anyway. Little Lebowski Urban Achievers Dylan Ris (Lost Moon Radio) and Dan Oster (MadTV, A Podcast, But Evil) join us to revisit this inside-out noir tale of bowling, kidnapping, and beverages in need of saving. You see what happens? You see what happens when we make a podcast?
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Ghostbusters 2
March 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 43 mins
1980s, 80s, bill murray, comedy, dan ackroyd, ernie hudson, film, ghost, ghostbusters, ghosts, halloween, harold ramis, movie, movies, rick moranis, saturday night live, sigourney weaver, snl
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold. Ghostbusters 2 is a sequel that's anything but paint-by-numbers. We're gonna call superfans Dylan Gregory and Tania Newton to blow some positively-charged slime all over a film that keeps on lifting us higher and higher.
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Happy Gilmore
March 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 51 mins
1990s, 90s, adam sandler, carl weathers, comedy, entertainment, film, golf, julie bowen, movies, sandler, saturday night live, snl, sports
The price is right for this classic golf comedy in which Adam Sadler tees off on everyone and everything in his path. Guest Dave Jackson (Tales From The Backlog) joins us to revisit a movie that never fails to take us to our happy place.
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Spaceballs
February 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 34 mins
alien, aliens, bill pullman, comedy, film, george lucas, joan rivers, john candy, mel brooks, movies, rick moranis, sci-fi, scifi, spoof, star trek, star wars
Spaceballs? Oh shit, there goes the podcast! Guest and master of the Schwartz Matt Storm a.k.a. Matt Stormageddon joins us for a look back at Star Wars as filtered through Mel Brooks' mastery of vaudeville, satire, and moichandizing!
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Mitch Hedberg
January 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
andy kaufman, beatnik, comedy, hedberg, improv, jazz, mitch hedberg, open mic, stand up, stand up comedy, stand-up, stand-up comedy, steve martin
If stand-up comedy was an equation then Mitch Hedberg was its Isaac Newton, a pioneer who turned the format on its head and make jokes into jazz and vice versa. Comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) joins us to revisit Hedberg's tragically brief career, and the stand-up revolution he quietly raged.
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Ghostbusters
January 1st, 2024 | 2 hrs 12 mins
1980s, afterlife, bill murray, comedy, dan ackroyd, ectoplasm, frozen empire, ghostbusters, ghosts, harold ramis, haunting, ivan reitman, rick moranis, sigourney weaver, slimer, snl, spirits
Who ya gonna call? For 40 years the story of blue-collar scientists with unlicensed nuclear accelerators exterminating paranormal threats has offered thrills, chills, and spills (of self-cooking eggs and marshmallow goo). On this episodes guests Dylan Gregory and Dan Oster (MadTV) join us to revisit why this comedy classic still has us in a trap four decades on. Grab a big twinkie and join us!
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My Best Friend's Wedding
December 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 29 mins
1990s, 90s, cameron diaz, comedy, entertainment, film, julia roberts, movies, rom-com, romantic comedy, romcom
My Best Friend's Wedding is, despite its trappings, not a romantic comedy. The film cleverly subverts expectations by making the villain appear to be the protagonist, making a happily never after the proper ending. We're joined again by Ami Lief and Ryan Merlo to revisit Julie Roberts doing worst what she usually does best.
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Clue: The Movie
November 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 38 mins
1980s, 80s, board game, board games, cluedo, comedy, farce, game, games, murder, mystery, tim curry, whodunnit
The classic whodunnit game became a classic whodunnit comedy. Guests comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and Ami Lief roll the dice and try to make a long story short as we try to solve the mystery of what makes this film so great. Hint, a lot of the credit goes to Tim Curry.
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Muppet Treasure Island
November 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 36 mins
1990s, 90s, comedy, disney, electric mayhem, fozzie, gonzo, jim henson, kermit, muppets, muppets mayhem, pirate, pirates, puppeteering, puppets, rizzo, robert louis stevenson, sea shanties, sea shanty, shanty, tim curry, treasure island
Shiver me felt timbers! We're shovin' off for adventure as Josh Covel of the Still Loading podcast (@StillLoadingPod) joins our crew to revisit the Muppets' take on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic.